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Libros en Ciencias de la Tierra y Planetarias

  • Fundamental of Ocean Dynamics

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 16
    • Inglés

  • Ecohydrodynamics

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 32
    • J.C.J. Nihoul
    • Inglés

  • Influence of Abyssal Circulation on Sedimentary Accumulations in Space and Time

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 23
    • Inglés

  • Terminal Eocene Events

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 9
    • C. Pomerol + 1 más
    • Inglés
    The papers in this volume provide an exhaustive inventory and description of the most complete sedimentary sequences across the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary (EOB) from all over the world, and present a synthesis of the biotic and chemico-physical events detected at the Eocene-Oligocene transition. The content of the book represents the results achieved by Project no. 174 on ``Geological Events at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary'' of the International Geological Correlation Program, sponsored by UNESCO. The project was carried out over a five year period and has provided a wealth of new and interesting information.

  • Canadian Inland Seas

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 44
    • I.P. Martini
    • Inglés
    The various chapters of this book have been written by researchers who are still working in the Canadian Inland Seas region. The chapters synthesize what is known about these seas, yet much still is to be learnt. It is hoped that this collection of information will serve as a springboard for future, much needed, studies in this fascinating, diverse region, and will stimulate comparative analyses with other subarctic and arctic basins of the world. The Canadian Inland Seas are the only remnants, albeit cold, of the ancient cratonic marine basins which occupied central North America throughout the Paleozoic and part of the Mesozoic. Precambrian rocks and gently dipping Paleozoic sedimentary rocks underlie the seas. The area is also close to the centers of Pleistocene glaciations. The coastal areas represent an emerged landscape of the post-glacial Tyrrell sea, as the region has been isostatically uplifted to about 350 meters since glacial times. A total of 56 fish species inhabit Hudson Bay and James Bay. Seals, whales and one of the largest and southernmost populations of polar bears inhabit the seas as well. The coastal areas are important habitats for migratory bird populations, some of which migrate from as far away as Southern Argentina.The ostic environment has preserved these regions relatively unchanged by man, with only a major harbour at Churchill, Manitoba, which is active for part of the year, and a second large, rail-terminal settlement in the south at Moosonee, Ontario. A few, small, native Indian and Inuit villages dot the coasts. The seas are being affected indirectly by the damming of rivers for the generation of hydroelectric power, and by drainage diversions towards the man-made reservoirs. A major project is being completed in Quebec east of James Bay, but other rivers in Ontario and Manitoba have been dammed as well. Undoubtedly freshwater is one of the more important resources of the area, however its exploitation needs careful thought because of the possible long-range effects on the environment, particularly the coastal marshes, which sustain much of the eastern American intercontinental migratory avifauna. Other resources occur in the regions, primarily minerals and perhaps petroleum. For the most part however, such resources remain to be discovered.

  • Hypersaline Brines and Evaporitic Environments

    Proceedings of the Bat Sheva Seminar on Saline Lakes and Natural Brines
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 28
    • Inglés

  • Multiobjective Optimization in Water Resources Systems

    The surrogate worth trade-off method
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 3
    • Inglés

  • International Clay Conference, 1978

    Proceedings of the VI International Clay Conference 1978 held in Oxford, 10-14 July, 1978 / organized by the Clay Minerals Group, Mineralogical Society, London, under the auspices of Association internationale pour lÆe¦tude des argiles
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 27
    • Inglés

  • Marine Organic Chemistry

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 31
    • E.K. Duursma + 1 más
    • Inglés

  • Archaean Geochemistry

    Proceedings of the Symposium on Archaean Geochemistry: the Origin and Evolution of Archaean Continental Crust, held in Hyderabad, India, November 15-19, 1977
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 1
    • Inglés

  • Contemporary Hydrogeology

    The George Burke Maxey memorial volume
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 12
    • Inglés

  • Sedimentology and Ore Genesis

    Proceedings of a symposium, held during the Sixth International Sedimentological Congress, Delft, 1963
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 2
    • Inglés

  • Hydrodynamics and sedimentation in wave-dominated coastal environments

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 39
    • Inglés

  • Pipeline Design for Water Engineers

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 6
    • Inglés

  • Submersibles and Their Use in Oceanography and Ocean Engineering

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 17
    • R.A. Geyer
    • Inglés

  • Bentonites

    Geology, mineralogy, properties and uses
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 24
    • Inglés

  • Deltaic and Shallow Marine Deposits

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 1
    • Inglés

  • Carbonate Rocks

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 9A
    • Inglés

  • Oil Shale

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 5
    • G.V. Chilingarian + 1 más
    • Inglés

  • Computer Systems and Water Resources

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 1
    • Inglés

  • Modelling of Marine Systems

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 10
    • J.C.J. Nihoul
    • Inglés

  • The Chemistry of Clay Minerals

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 15
    • Inglés

  • Physiological Limnology

    An Approach to the Physiology of Lake Ecosystems
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 2
    • Inglés

  • The Late Neogene

    Biostratigraphy, geochronology, and paleoclimatology of the last 15 million years in marine and continental sequences
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 2
    • Inglés

  • Formulas and Calculations for Drilling, Production, and Workover

    All the Formulas You Need to Solve Drilling and Production Problems
    • 3 Edición
    • Thomas Carter + 2 más
    • Inglés
    Formulas and Calculations for Drilling, Production, and Workover: All the Formulas You Need to Solve Drilling and Production Problems, Third Edition, provides a convenient source of reference for oil field workers who do not use formulas and calculations on a regular basis. This book is still intended for the entirety of their careers. It also aims to help reduce the volume of materials they must carry to the rig floor or job site. Starting with review of basic equations and basic calculations, the remaining chapters offer in-depth discussions of topics such as drilling fluids, pressure control, engineering calculations, and air and gas calculations. The formulas and calculations are provided in either English field units or in metric units. This edition includes the Volumetric Procedure, the Lubricate and Bleed Procedure (both Volume and Pressure Methods), and stripping procedures (both the Strip and Bleed Procedure and the Combined Stripping and Volumetric Procedure). The Table of Contents and the Index make looking up formulas and calculations quick and easy. Examples are used throughout to make the formulas as easy as possible to understand and work, and often exact words are used rather than symbols.

  • Evolution and Extinction Rate Controls

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 1
    • A.J. Boucot
    • Inglés

  • Hydrology and Water Resources in Tropical Africa

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 8
    • J. Balek
    • Inglés

  • Stratigraphic Micropaleontology of Atlantic Basin and Borderlands

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 6
    • Inglés

  • The Identification of Detrital Feldspars

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 6
    • Inglés

  • The Movement of Beach Sand

    An Analysis Using Fluorescent Grains
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 5
    • Inglés

  • Digital Terrain Analysis in Soil Science and Geology

    • 1 Edición
    • Igor Florinsky
    • Inglés
    Digital Terrain Analysis in Soil Science and Geology provides soil scientists and geologists with an integrated view of the principles and methods of digital terrain analysis. Its attention to first principles and focus on error analysis makes it a useful resource for scientists to uncover the method applications particular to their needs. Digital Terrain Analysis in Soil Science and Geology covers a wide range of applications in the context of multi-scale problems of soil science and geology.

  • The techniques of sedimentary mineralogy

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 4
    • Inglés

  • Sedimentary features of flysch and greywackes

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 7
    • Inglés

  • Precambrian of the Northern Hemisphere

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 3
    • Inglés

  • Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

    Physical and Numerical Aspects
    • 2 Edición
    • Volumen 101
    • Benoit Cushman-Roisin + 1 más
    • Inglés
    Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics provides an introductory-level exploration of geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD), the principles governing air and water flows on large terrestrial scales. Physical principles are illustrated with the aid of the simplest existing models, and the computer methods are shown in juxtaposition with the equations to which they apply. It explores contemporary topics of climate dynamics and equatorial dynamics, including the Greenhouse Effect, global warming, and the El Nino Southern Oscillation.

  • Evidence-Based Climate Science

    Data Opposing CO2 Emissions as the Primary Source of Global Warming
    • 1 Edición
    • Don Easterbrook
    • Inglés
    Global warming and human-induced climate change are perhaps the most important scientific issues of our time. These issues continue to be debated in the scientific community and in the media without true consensus about the role of greenhouse gas emissions as a contributing factor. Evidence-Based Climate Science: Data opposing CO2 emissions as the primary source of global warming objectively gathers and analyzes scientific data concerning patterns of past climate changes, influences of changes in ocean temperatures, the effect of solar variation on global climate, and the effect of CO2 on global climate to clearly and objectively present counter-global-warmi... evidence not embraced by proponents of CO2.

  • Physical and Chemical Oceanography, and Physical Resources

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 24B
    • Inglés

  • Hydrocarbons

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 27A
    • Inglés

  • Pleistocene Vertebrate Faunas of Hungary

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 8
    • D. Jánossy
    • Inglés
    The last two decades have seen a spectacular renewal of interest in the study of Pleistocene vertebrates. This is especially true in the case of fine stratigraphy based on microvertebrates. Hungary's natural endowments as well as the development of science in the country, have made continuous research in this area possible since the last century.The literature amassed during the last fifty years is so scattered and difficult to retrieve that there has been a great need for a comprehensive treatise in this field. Recent decades have seen work in a series of important new localities, with new systematic-stratigra... results. This Hungarian work is outstanding in Europe for its quantity and completeness. It is clear that a handbook would have to be both comprehensive and analytical. This volume aims to be just that, in so far as it describes all animal assemblages of the Hungarian Pleistocene deposits, with complete faunistic lists and with detailed explanation of the stratigraphical arrangements. The value of this book is enhanced by a series of chronological tables for various localities, several sketches, pictures of localities, as well as indexes of localities and species.

  • Morphometry of Drainage Basins

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 20
    • I. Zavoianu
    • Inglés
    The book describes the drainage basin as a system unit resulting from the interaction between runoff and topography - a lengthy process of evolution that occurs according to well-defined laws. It aims not to quantify the agents which created the present forms, but to analyse the forms themselves in order to establish the laws according to which they develop, and to define a series of inter-relationships between morphometrical parameters and river discharge.

  • Seepage Hydraulics

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 10
    • G. Kovács
    • Inglés

  • Soil Erosion

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 10
    • D. Zachar
    • Inglés

  • Groundwater Hydraulics

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 7
    • V. Hálek + 1 más
    • Inglés

  • Thermal Methods of Petroleum Production

    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 25
    • N.K. Baibakov + 2 más
    • Inglés
    Until now, information on Russian enhanced oil recovery (EOR) research work and field experience has not been available in English. This work, originally published in Russian, describes in a systematic manner recent Russian laboratory and field research, as well as industrial experience of applying thermal EOR methods in different Russian oil fields - some with high viscosity crudes and others with low viscosity. It is written by two leading Russian specialists, and contains 116 diagrams (curves, graphs, designs), and 36 tables (research data).The book will be valuable to petroleum companies throughout the world, oil field servicing companies, petroleum engineering consultants, and libraries of technical institutes and universities.

  • Composition and Properties of Drilling and Completion Fluids

    • 6 Edición
    • Ryen Caenn + 2 más
    • Inglés
    The petroleum industry in general has been dominated by engineers and production specialists. The upstream segment of the industry is dominated by drilling/completion engineers. Usually, neither of those disciplines have a great deal of training in the chemistry aspects of drilling and completing a well prior to its going on production. The chemistry of drilling fluids and completion fluids have a profound effect on the success of a well. For example, historically the drilling fluid costs to drill a well have averaged around 7% of the overall cost of the well, before completion. The successful delivery of up to 100% of that wellbore, in many cases may be attributable to the fluid used. Considered the "bible" of the industry, Composition and Properties of Drilling and Completion Fluids, first written by Walter Rogers in 1948, and updated on a regular basis thereafter, is a key tool to achieving successful delivery of the wellbore. In its Sixth Edition, Composition and Properties of Drilling and Completion Fluids has been updated and revised to incorporate new information on technology, economic, and political issues that have impacted the use of fluids to drill and complete oil and gas wells. With updated content on Completion Fluids and Reservoir Drilling Fluids, Health, Safety & Environment, Drilling Fluid Systems and Products, new fluid systems and additives from both chemical and engineering perspectives, Wellbore Stability, adding the new R&D on water-based muds, and with increased content on Equipment and Procedures for Evaluating Drilling Fluid Performance in light of the advent of digital technology and better manufacturing techniques, Composition and Properties of Drilling and Completion Fluids has been thoroughly updated to meet the drilling and completion engineer's needs.

  • Earth's Magnetosphere

    Formed by the Low-Latitude Boundary Layer
    • 1 Edición
    • Walter Heikkila
    • Inglés
    The author argues that, after five decades of debate about the interactive of solar wind with the magnetosphere, it is time to get back to basics. Starting with Newton's law, this book also examines Maxwell's equations and subsidiary equations such as continuity, constitutive relations and the Lorentz transformation; Helmholtz' theorem, and Poynting's theorem, among other methods for understanding this interaction.

  • Earth as an Evolving Planetary System

    • 2 Edición
    • Kent C. Condie
    • Inglés
    Earth as an Evolving Planetary System, Second Edition, explores key topics and questions relating to the evolution of the Earth's crust and mantle over the last four billion years. This updated edition features exciting new information on Earth and planetary evolution and examines how all subsystems in our planet—crust, mantle, core, atmosphere, oceans and life—have worked together and changed over time. It synthesizes data from the fields of oceanography, geophysics, planetology, and geochemistry to address Earth’s evolution. This volume consists of 10 chapters, including two new ones that deal with the Supercontinent Cycle and on Great Events in Earth history. There are also new and updated sections on Earth's thermal history, planetary volcanism, planetary crusts, the onset of plate tectonics, changing composition of the oceans and atmosphere, and paleoclimatic regimes. In addition, the book now includes new tomographic data tracking plume tails into the deep mantle. This book is intended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, with a basic knowledge of geology, biology, chemistry, and physics. It also may serve as a reference tool for structural geologists and professionals in related disciplines who want to look at the Earth in a broader perspective.

  • Extractive Metallurgy of Copper

    • 5 Edición
    • Mark E. Schlesinger + 2 más
    • Inglés
    This multi-author new edition revises and updates the classic reference by William G. Davenport et al (winner of, among other awards, the 2003 AIME Mineral Industry Educator of the Year Award "for inspiring students in the pursuit of clarity"), providing fully updated coverage of the copper production process, encompassing topics as diverse as environmental technology for wind and solar energy transmission, treatment of waste by-products, and recycling of electronic scrap for potential alternative technology implementation. The authors examine industrially grounded treatments of process fundamentals and the beneficiation of raw materials, smelting and converting, hydrometallurgical processes, and refining technology for a mine-to-market perspective - from primary and secondary raw materials extraction to shipping of rod or billet to customers. The modern coverage of the work includes bath smelting processes such as Ausmelt and Isasmelt, which have become state-of-the-art in sulfide concentrate smelting and converting.

  • Developments in Palygorskite-Sepiolite Research

    A New Outlook on these Nanomaterials
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 3
    • Inglés
    The aim of this comprehenvise book is to present the most important results achieved in the research of the clay minerals palygorskite and sepiolite. Palygorskite and sepiolite have found to be useful in a huge variety of industrial and medical applications. As a result, research on these clays has been intensified during the last two decades, and important advances in their characterization have been made. The book contains contributions from distinguished scientists in the field.

  • Quaternary Glaciations - Extent and Chronology

    A Closer Look
    • 1 Edición
    • Volumen 15
    • J. Ehlers + 2 más
    • Inglés
    The book presents an up-to-date, detailed overview of the Quaternary glaciations all over the world, not only with regard to stratigraphy but also with regard to major glacial landforms and the extent of the respective ice sheets. The locations of key sites are included. The information is presented in digital, uniformly prepared maps which can be used in a Geographical Information System (GIS) such as ArcView or ArcGIS. The accompanying text supplies the information on how the data were obtained (geomorphology, geological mapping, air photograph evaluation, satellite imagery), how the features were dated (14C, TL, relative stratigraphy) and how reliable they are supposed to be. All references to the underlying basic publications are included. Where controversial interpretations are possible e.g. in Siberia or Tibet, this is pointed out. As a result, the information on Quaternary glaciations worldwide will be much improved and supplied in a uniform digital format.The information on the glacial limits is compiled in digital form by the coordinators of the project, and is available for download at: http://booksite.else...

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